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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#39699: [core-updates] gash-boot0 fails on i686-linux
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:57:49 +0100
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To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>, Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
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Hi,

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:

> Bootstrap fails early on i686-linux when trying to build gash-boot0,
> which fails thusly:

[...]

>    ?: 1 [primitive-load-path "compression/bzip2" ...]
> In compression/bzip2.scm:
>   45: 0 [#<procedure 8499a10 ()>]
>
> compression/bzip2.scm:45:18: In procedure #<procedure 8499a10 ()>:
> compression/bzip2.scm:45:18: ERROR: R6RS exception:
>   1. &error
>   2. &who: bzip2
>   3. &message: "This module requires at least 32-bit fixnums"
>   4. &irritants: ()
> command "tar" "xvf" "/gnu/store/bspn36jhcd2ky6ih7wnh9z0iz867flc2-gash-0.2=
.0.tar.gz" failed with status 1

The error comes from the (compression bzip2) module included in
=E2=80=9Cbootar=E2=80=9D.

I can see two solutions:

  1. Remove bzip2 support from bootar (it=E2=80=99s not actually needed, is=
 it?).

  2. Modify (compression bzip2) so that it errors out on first use
     rather than at load time.

Timothy, janneke, WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.